And Another One Bites The Dust!

Crime Drops, Despite Expiration of Gun Ban
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
June 08, 2005

(CNSNews.com) - So much for "anti-gun hysterics" and predictions of "blood running in the streets," a Second Amendment group says.
- I'm not surprised! Are you surprised?

Nine months after the Clinton-era "assault weapons ban" expired, the FBI has released crime statistics showing a drop in homicides in 2004 -- the first such drop since 1999. The FBI report said all types of violent crime declined last year, and cities with more than a million people showed the largest drops in violent crime.
- Maybe it's because the citizens are a little better armed :)

When the Clinton ban on certain semiautomatic weapons expired last September, gun control groups warned that violent crime would escalate, including violence against children.
- YES! They invoked the Liberal Battlecry™; 'Let's do it for the children!' The only 'control' these people want is to NOT let you own any firearms. That is their goal plain and simple (just ask Cruz's wife).

But those "doom and gloom" forecasts have been exposed as "pure clap-trap," said Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) President Joe Tartaro.

"Where is the news media on this?" Tartaro wondered. He said if the number of homicides had gone up, reporters would be writing front-page stories linking the rise to the end of the semi-auto ban.

"But that's not the case, and the mainstream press, with the exception of an April 28 New York Times article, has been pretty quiet about it," Tartaro said.
- The 'mainstream' press is run by liberals. Why do you think they're so pissed off at Fox News?

The FBI crime report is more proof that the rhetoric from anti-gunners is bogus, Tartaro added. "The press should now question all the other outrageous claims and predictions from the gun control crowd."
- Never happen...

"The gun control movement is, and always has been, built on a foundation of hysteria and lies," SAF Founder Alan Gottlieb said.
- Yes, I've been on the receiving end of it a few times myself. My two favorite's are "You're not allowed into my house with a gun. Ever!' Then they had some 'vandal issues' and then I was TOLD to come over with one. I guess they think if you own a gun you're some kind of hitman or something...
The next one was because I brought a gun magazine over someone's house (the type you read, not load a semiauto with). Another person was also visiting the same residence and turned evil on me as soon as she saw what it was. Of course little comments were said and when I mentioned a few facts (kinda like this article) it went downhill 'You just have gun's to make up for a small penis!' Anti-Gunners are crazy... and I don't have a small penis... really.

"From their lawsuits against gun makers to their assaults on the firearm civil rights of law-abiding American citizens, these gun grabbers have been deliberately deceitful and consistently wrong."
- They have also admitted as much. Here's some good articles;

Weapons ban purely cosmetic - "The Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer, who's pro-gun control, admitted that the ban's "only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation." The ban erodes respect for the right of the people to keep and bear arms."

This one really kills me, they keep 'assault weapons' over the border in Virginia because DC's gun laws are so restrictive... Isn't DC the murder capitol of the US? NPR Examines the Semi-automatic gun ban.